West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04

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respondent at this place, is worth
reprinting. 1t SO happens that Mr..
Osborne made to me the same statc
ment that was given to the reporter
of the IntezIigeacer and can also
certify that Senator Price, of Mar.
shall, is not likely to depart from
the line of his duty. He informs
me he is confident that although his
course may be misrepresented it will
eventually be understood and his
conductwill bevindieated by results.
THEIR PECULIAR POLICY.
Outsiders are entirely at loss to
account for Mr.. Camden's conduct.
Although his lobby is increasing
and new men are constantly coming,
he has no organization and his strik-
ers grope about in the dark. If
member of the Legislature seems to
be laboring, from two to six local
politicians in his county put in
their appearance, but this has be-
come so common that it attracts no
attention. The Registers account
of the mass meeting in Moundsville
which was intended to bulldoze SEN
ator Bushrod Price did not cause
single comment and had no more
effect upon the Senator than the
blowing of tho wind. He says he is
eighty years old and has been a
Democrat all his life. He informed
me that although the strikers in the
pale of monopoly may make ripple
on the surface, they cannot phase
the solid Democrats in his district
1t is very plain to him, he says,that
all the Camden men have money
enough to run about the country
making demonstrations, whereas the
people opposing him are quietly at
home attending to their business;
but while they are not excited and
noisy they are none the less opposed
to the Senator's re election.
ON THE o. II. r.
Col. Mclean, of Putnam, is here
and he informs me that although
superhuman efforts have been made
to bulldoze Senator Switzer, his
course is fully sustained by the
sturdy yeomany in his party and he
is stronger and more popular to-day
than he ever was. Col Mclean tells
me that it is comman remark in
Putnam that his constituents desire
Switzer to act as he thinks best
regardless of the clamor of Camden's
strikers.
MIR. SPEAKER.
/ had talk this evening with
Mr.. John Osborne, a prominent law
yer in Monroe county. Hc says that
during his canvass Speaker Rowan
declared that he was opposed to
Camden, and that if he had intima-
ted his intention to support him he
could not have been nominated 1t
seems that Gen. Phil. Snyder APP
pointed Rowan's son-or some near
relation-to an office. Osborne says
that Camden man could not obtain
100 votes in his county and that
Rowan knows it perfectly well.
With regard to Senator VanPelt Mr.
Osborne says that when his name
was proposed to the convention the
question was asked how he would
vote on the Senatorship and that
VanPelt' brother-in-law replied that
he was authorized to pledge him to
vote against Camden. There are
several other gentlemen here from
Monroe who have been prominent in
all conventions, and without excep
ton they declare that the Green
brier delegates are the cnly ones
voicing sentiments of that section.
eflIreuLIISe ArBErunIIcANs,
It's very evident to me that Sen
ator Camden's friends are making
the greatest effort to obtain Repub
lican votes, and il is also evident
that they are not receiving any en-
couragement. / was informed to-
day by q thoroughly posted anti
Camden Democrat, who is person
ally very partial to Governor Will
son, that there is no contingency in
which he could be elected as Cam
denis successor. He said it would
ruin his party to vacate the Govern
orship at this juncture, and that he
believed that if Wilson was pushed
to the front the Republicans would
break and go to Camden. 1t is the
common opinion here that Camden
made great blunder when he forced
the caucus, for the reason that the
Republicans would violate their en-
tire policy should they support a
Democratic nominee-the more es-
pecially when such nominee is load
cd with Standard oil.
The Wellsburg Herald a Repub-
lican papcr) speaking to the sug-
gestion that Mr.. Camden's friends
expect to obtain for him some Re-